The trial against Ivan Radan, formerly employed as a doctor at the Ljubljana Neurology Clinic, among other things accused also of killing six patients, has started. Yet the expert opinion will make it proving his guilt difficult.

The indictment blames him not only for murders, but also for unjustified photographing of patients, and unjustifiable issue of prescriptions for medications worth approximately EUR 20,000, which according to prosecution constitutes abuse of office, and enabling use of illegal drugs.
The court has received the final report by Wolfgang Krol, the expert from Austria, which is supposed to be crucial evidence. The report shows that neither potassium nor morphine had caused the death of the patients. It is also emphasized that the line between easing the suffering of the dying patients and active euthanasia is very thin.

Opinion in Radan's favour
At the pre-trial hearing Radan pleaded not guilty. He claimed it was all a provocation with which he wanted to warn about the unendurable conditions within the ward. Krol's report, as we have learned from unofficial sources, describes in detail the treatment of the seven patients whose lives Radan supposedly shortened by administering morphine or potassium. Yet the report does not confirm such suspicions, but claims that all the patients have been treated according to the medical doctrine.